This is a poem

This is a poem

A poem I’m writing

I’m writing a poem

Cause my writing is good

Good has a meaning which I don’t understand

But I hear it so often so I guess someone does

Either way I guess that’s okay, not great, but it’s fine

Mediocre, complacent

I hear those words too

But words aren’t people

And people is one word

Most words have a meaning

Like you are a person, part of the people

The word person has a meaning, definition, a purpose

A word like a person makes sense so I use it

I use it in writing to write with some meaning

Some goodness, something that’s simple like you

The voice that makes sounds I replicate

The one who tells me it’s good

And good has a meaning, but I’ve yet to hear it

I’ve yet to hear from you

 

If you’re more than a word

I’ve yet to see it

And if you have a meaning

I’ve yet to know it

And if you have a substance

You’ve yet to show it

Where are you, the person, a person, the people, a people

The words you created

You gave them a meaning

A meaning from you with wisdom and knowledge

A meaning I use

I use on the people who no longer are

 

I still hear your voices but we are apart

And I want us together

But these words will not fit

 

I was a writer

And my writing was great

And I wrote for the people

Not for the words

 

Because people is simple, it’s grammar, it’s structure, it’s one of the parts of the speech

But people are simple, they’re barely breathing, they are pure chaos, they have lost all forgiveness and this poem means nothing.

Nothing more than you do.

 

So tell me

My dear reader

Who are you?

Author's Notes/Comments: 

'19 tj

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Somewhat likened to the

Somewhat likened to the tribute to the best song ever written. Could it that both writer and reader create the composition together and this symbiosis is what makes literature what it is? Like from two opposing banks the selfsame river flows. And yet the water in it is always different but in some ways the same.


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